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Been almost a month since my last post – how time flies! Holidays are over, work and school started again, back to the regular routine. Crafting does happen, but blogging less. Hope to be able to make something for the Chocolate Baroque challenge in time!

I’ll show some things I made the past year (or still haven’t finished) which I might not have shown yet on my blog. These things include a skirt for my son, natural ink and many cards. First a gallery with the ink, then a gallery with the rest. The ink pictures are from May. I haven’t touched the jars since except for once, and then I threw out the onion one as it smelled horrible. Not sure how moldy the rest is… Ink was too ligh to be really usable. Another chance soon, the walnut is shedding it’s nuts and they /their shells are great for ink. (But then again, what do I do with this ink? It’s not stamping ink…)

And now the rest:

Cut edges in old cards with shaped scissors

Apply molding paste with the card for texture.

My first try at an art journal page. Didn’t like the result, too many layers

My second attempt, I liked this. Didn’t know how to go from here, so I left it like this. No 3rd page made yet.

Cute little swimming dragon – I gave it to my nephew for his birthday, but due to the focus on the outside of the card, I forgot to write something in it 😛

A basic card in browns

One of my favourite cards, with the Sea Steampunkiness.

Chocolate Baroque stamps and a M-bossability embossing folder.

This frame is still waiting for a cardbase.

Card for a man. Something different.

Side 1 from the skirt. The other side is jeans.

Oh a card from a bird in between. Nothing special to see here, move aling.

The other side of the skirt.

He likes the swirl of skirts. Might be a bit heavy though.

Jeans side. Note that I can’t sew. By that, I mean that ofcourse I can put fabric under a sewing machine, and sew from one side to the other. Straight lines? A complete pattern? (I did look up how to make/draw the circle, but as the jeansfabric was from an old jeans I had to change bits here and there. It’s still like this, I’m stuck at: what kind of band do I put on top and how do I do it without breaking my needle?

Like this card a lot too. VivaLasVegaStamps, text is from Crafter’s Companions.

Canvas. I did do more to it, it’s hardly reconizable. Not prettier, just different 😛

As seen on facebook, my masculine card but trying to stay away from too much brown.

I saw this stamp at De-Stempelwinkel and liked it a lot, so what do you do then? I wonder where the text comes from, who wrote it.

Anyway, the card. I made it in the last 2 or 3 weeks, and I forgot what I did on the background. There’s lots of stenciling – I see some art deco arches (Stampinback.nl?) in wild honey slightly on the card, and sunbursts (Dutch Doobadoo). sec, getting the card…. aaah the white in the background are giant stitch crosses from a A3 sized stencil from Marianne Design of Joy Crafts. It’s a reverse print of the stencil. So 3 stencils, it was getting a bit busy. I had this new stamp and watned to try it out, so why not this card?

Ooh ascension… fill up… drops rising up, but not in the sea, it should be more dreamlike, more moonlike. Silver waterbubbles. I stamped in on top of the text, as I figured the text would be visible enough – I think I should have wiped a bit more embossing powder off it at the text, but the look I wanted (bubbles going before the text) has succeeded. Embossed the bubbles with pearlsilver embossing powder. Also added a fairy, but removed her wings (wiped the ink from the stamp) and only very slighly went over her with a wet brush to mix the colours in her dress more. She’s a moonghost now, hardly visible, like when you try to hold on to a dream.

I added drops of glue onto the bubbles for some body, I wanted to know if I could get the same effect as glossy accents with it. Tip: don’t put the card in upright position when it has drops of something on it.

LAst but not least, I wanted to use some dies agan. It’s been ages since I used them. I didn’t want a forest scene, or sea scene, but some sort of mix between it. Like seaitems but above ground, like a fog in which magical things can be seen. The thing the items have in common is the coloursetting. The backcard is coloured in Stormy sky too, and the middle matted card has the crushed olive and forest moss.

It’s a strange card. But is it strange in the way it’s supposed to be, with water elements in the air, grass in a sea? Is it dreamlike strange?

Not sure if the text is featured enough for the Challenge of De-Stempelwinkel, which is Surrealism these two weeks. (Oh wait, they sell also the stamps from Designs by Ryn!) I hope dreams are surreal enough!

It was fun making this card, it was a bit different from what I usually make. I started out with a page from an old thin book for people who start learning english. The paper is a bit more fragile then my usual paper so I had to work a bit more careful. I refound my sizzix flower dies, and had fun using them on fabric! Fabric? There’s no fabric on the card! That’s right, but I only decided against using the cut out fabric after the inkin/masking, when I tried them on the page. It didn’t look right.

I look forward to using my dies on more fabric scraps.

I masked both the negative and the positive cut of the die-cut, which gave a nice layered effect. I seem to be in love with the Persimmon orange colour from distress in combination with blue (Peacock Feathers is still a favourite!).

Then, time for the words. “May songbirds serenade you every step along the way” has a very poetic feel to it, it matches the page very well. Also, there are a few times when the word “footsteps” jumped out of the text – some are hidden in the end result though. I think on this page they are tracking someone, or following a path (I did read the short story back when I checked if this book could be used). Songbirds singing from between the flowers, lovely!

I stamped with versamark+stazon jet black and embossed with black embossing powder. Next was adding some more diecuts, and I set myself to the challenge to use some of my scraps of paper. I did find some good matches.

I also stamped a bird from Prima Marketing Pixie Glenn with Stazon Jet Black, and Non-Sequitur’s Tree Trunk with brown.

Last, I die-cut the tattered flowers from tissue paper (after colouring the tissue paper with distress ink and water and drying it). But that’s not all, I took my M-bossabilities folder Twigs and Tweets, inked up a part of it (and removed the ink on the leaves, leaving only the birds to be inked reddish) and embossed the flowers. So on every tissuepaper flower there is also a bird (or part of a bird) inked, and the embossing of the folder itself. In the end I didn’t use all 4 diecuts, I only used 2 and inked them up a bit, made them a bit greener as I thought the red was too red.

The branch is stamped on with a stanp with versamark and then heat embossed with shabby shutters distress embossing powder. The little die-cut birds from Marianne Design are inked up with versamark with a brush, and then dipped in embossing powder.

I used a Cheery Lynn die (Celtic Frame I think it’s called) to partially cut the top and bottom of the page.

Before gluing on the die-cuts I wanted to put a little bit more protection on the page, so I put decoupage glue on it. I was a bit slow in thinking, because only after rinsing the brush (which I do immediately after using the glue) I realized I ofcourse could glue on the die cuts now easily as well. No fussy gluing with small bits, as the entire surface of the card was sticky. I did end up having to add a bit of glue to some parts where it was too dry allready, but none the less it was fast and easy to add the diecuts.

Before adding decoupage glue – would it ruin the card by smearing out the ink? Also visible, on the right: die-cut fabric tattered flowers (blueish) and the flourishes die (and cut), inks and oh the antique greenish embossing powder! Love it!

That about sums it up. (I didn’t describe all steps, it’s obvious I inked the edges and matted the card onto cardstock etc).

A while ago I saw a post from Cornelia at Stempel-Spass (Fun Stamping) about creating your own borders., it was a one layer card. I can’t find the post at the moment but I asked Cornelia if she knew which post I meant, I’ll add the link to the post later. I found it: OWL again, post in May, and I see now she was inspired by someone else as well: Janet a.k.a Swanlady

I was inspired by that technique and tried it out myself. Well, inspired… To be sure I did it right I copied her card, maybe with a change of stamp, colour and/or text, but I’m sure the layout is the same. I do know I had a flower branch off from the side, to emphasize the text: Enjoy the little things. It’s that one flower in all that green, that one branch being out of line, that you can enjoy. See it, and enjoy it’s unrulyness. It’s will to be seen.

I had a conversation with a neighbour that week or a week later, who said she had a hard time as a friend had passed. She said she admired how he could enjoy and appreciate the here and now, the things around him. He enjoyed their walks together, enjoyed the park, the trees… we both agreed people should stop and take the time to see things around them and to appreciate / enjoy them.

I thought of this card, and how very suitable it was for this situation. It was like it was meant to be.

Rarely do I make simple cards, as I just can’t stop decorating and such, but I had this one simple card. This one card, not overly joyful or ful of happiness, but this solemn card of peace and hope. A card that fit with dying and life.

I didn’t take that many pictures as I still didn’t think it was perfect (I think it’s obvious to see what I meant), but it was perfect for the occasion, and very very well received, she had needed it. So I am thankfull for this imperfect card, and Cornelia’s inspiration.

So here it is, another imperfect perfect card (I am good at making those, it seems.)

Materials used:

ArtSpecially stamp: Takte time to enjoy the simple things in life

Prima Marketing Stamp: #551087, Pixie Glen

Dies:

Marianne Design

Creatables

LR0257

Tak en bloem

Joy! Crafts

Vintage Flourishes

Noor! Design

6003/0026

Branch leaves thin

Joy! Crafts

Vintage Flourishes

Noor! Design

6002/0137

Grass border

Ah I made it in May, I see from my order. I used the ink and textstamp I ordered from the stamping cottage, and I bet the grass border was fairly new as well – it was made by die cutting a grass border with Joy Crafts! Grass border die, then using the left over cardstock as a mask. The branch that is sticking out is a Marianne Design die (or rather, the negative of the die is used as mask) and the other branches are a Joy!Crafts vintage flourish die (both the diecut and the negative of the diecut used as a mask). The rose is from the set Pixie Glen by Prima Marketing (#551087, I looked it up).

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Debbie (nickname Daqa); the partner of a wonderful man; mother of 3 kids (2011, 2013, 2014); sister; aunt; Dutch; dog and cat lover; gamer (or should I say geek?); IT-consultant living in Bunde, Zuid-Limburg, The Netherlands. I love to try out different crafts, but mostly, I like to make paper things.

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